May 9th, 2010
10:19 PM ET

Kagan to be Supreme Court nominee, CNN confirms

 

[Update 11:06 p.m. ET] President Obama will select Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the Supreme Court nominee to replace the retiring John Paul Stevens, a legal source close to the process told CNN Sunday evening. 

The nomination is expected to be announced Monday at 11 a.m. ET, another source familiar with the process said. 

Kagan, 50, a New York native, was widely reported to be the frontrunner for the nomination. She was a finalist for the high court vacancy last year when Justice Sonia Sotomayor was selected to replace the retiring David Souter. 

Kagan would be the third woman on the nine-justice bench if confirmed. 

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[Posted 10:19 p.m. ET] NBC News is reporting President Obama will select Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the Supreme Court nominee to replace the retiring John Paul Stevens. 

CNN is working to confirm the report.

Kagan is a former Harvard Law School dean and has never served as judge. As solicitor general, she is the Obama administration's top lawyer before the Supreme Court and has argued several high-profile cases before the justices since taking the job in spring 2009. 

Kagan was a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall and served as associate White House counsel in President Clinton's administration. 

- CNN's John King and Bill Mears contributed to this report. 

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  1. dogdude

    If President Obama likes her I like her.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:48 pm | Report abuse |
  2. lolumad?

    "Why are liberal women so butt ugly??
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    Isn't hollywood liberal? Lots of ugly women there too.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:49 pm | Report abuse |
  3. vegasguy

    @TEE......You seem to have some very serious problems,dictator? Really?!? Just how do you figure that/ Did someone tell you that? They must have because there's certainly nothing you can point at that states that. He has not done one thing that every other president hasn't done. If you think he has, please name it. I believe you really have to start to get your news and opinions from another source for awhile. Turn off Fox No News, read a newspaper, preferable 2 or 3 of them. Do your own research instead of being told what to think. I know it requires some effort on your part but man, open up your maind and let the sun in.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:49 pm | Report abuse |
  4. dogdude

    Kim, "it" is both man and woman. And beast. Don't forget beast.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:50 pm | Report abuse |
  5. fable

    she looks very masculine. is it true she is a leziban?

    May 9, 2010 at 11:51 pm | Report abuse |
  6. Dellmer

    To Seth (#29): Yeah, Obama's going to pick a moderate just like GW Bush did when he picked Alito and Roberts, both ultra-conservatives. They got to join two other ultra-conservatives: Scalia and Thomas. So now there are FOUR ultra-conservatives on the court. And Kagan is NOT ultra-liberal. Nice pick, Mr. President.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:51 pm | Report abuse |
  7. dogdude

    And for God's sack look beyond the face. Imagine her with no clothes on.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:51 pm | Report abuse |
  8. Tickles

    I wish Obama had chosen a black Muslim-someone like Louis Farrakhan-someone with no legal background who would legislate from the bench.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:51 pm | Report abuse |
  9. humphrey20

    She is a friend of Larry Summers and the whole in-crowd in DC, so this is not too surprising. Everyone of them was rooting for her all along.

    She attends the same synagogue, the same university (Harvard, of course), all the same dinner parties, etc etc - one of the gang.

    And she is smart, of course, and has spent an entire career not writing any decisions on anything - thus enabling herself to be confirmed.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:52 pm | Report abuse |
  10. mikal

    I should be shocked about all the attacks based on her looks rather than her record being thrown by the teabaggers but saddly I'm not.

    Great choice Mr. Pres, I'm glad that the court is beginning to look a little more like America, considering more than half of Americans are Women. And to boot she and Associate Justice Sotomayor are highly intelligent.

    Yes teabaggers you may have the 'beautiful' women as you claim but we have the smart ones. And as to what beauty you may be refering to, I guess you're only refering to the outside beauty, b/c inside beauty is something Republicans don't know anything about.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:52 pm | Report abuse |
  11. bill

    I got it. It must be some publicity stunt for a new movie. Because I swear that is Kevin James with earrings on.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:52 pm | Report abuse |
  12. joe r

    good hell.... what on god's green earth is that ugly blob? Is that a man or a woman?

    May 9, 2010 at 11:52 pm | Report abuse |
  13. Mac

    I have a mental picture of this nominee eating a plate of pot-laced brownies while contemplating the future value of said experience. Can you tell ? : )

    May 9, 2010 at 11:53 pm | Report abuse |
  14. Libby Thomas

    She looks like a man with a triple chin. Holly Crap is she a though butch or what.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:53 pm | Report abuse |
  15. dogdude

    Tickles, sarcasm really doesn't convey a message well. You've been learning from Rush Limbaugh, a true mental midget.

    May 9, 2010 at 11:53 pm | Report abuse |
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